My boss was the BTK killer

My boss was the BTK killer
I was the next victim

Former Employee of the
BTK Killer Speaks
Her Boss was a Serial Killer...
And She was Next

Mary Capps with Jim Dobkins

This is the book that caught the media by surprise, even the Wichita Eagle. The few who knew that Mary Capps was writing her story kept it secret so she could complete it without unwanted interruptions to her life.

She has recovered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome – the result of finding out that her boss, Dennis Rader, was the BTK (Bind Torture Kill) serial killer.

She did over 60 media interviews during the first two months after the book’s formal publication in 2007. Her most recent national radio interview was on Coast to Coast AM radio.

Her story is riveting. All true.

Mary Capps

“This is the recovered Mary. It took many months, and a good man in my life before I could smile again. I want people to know the smiling Mary
not the deeply depressed Mary that was struggling with
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.”

_Mary Capps gives an exclusive look at the man behind the monster, including:

How she sensed Rader was evil and why the Park City officials ignored her repeated complaints against him.
One of her biggest regrets—her aunt helped save Rader’s life, when he would have died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
The strange events and phone calls that led her to believe she was, indeed, Rader’s projected eleventh murder victim.
Mary’s ongoing struggle with City Hall to clear her employment record of the negative reviews Rader submitted about her.
The only times she’d ever witnessed her boss render an act of kindness.
The extent her boss went to with his BTK codes.
How Dennis Rader was overjoyed upon hearing that Mary had turned in her resignation—and how his joy turned to anger when he found out his own boss had talked Mary into keeping her job as a compliance officer.
An event in which Mary wondered if Dennis Rader’s wife, Paula, wore the pants in the family.
The incredible extent her boss would go to keep from doing dirty work.
Dennis Rader’s shock when—only four days before his arrest—Mary asked him how his wife, Paula, had reacted to the murder of Marine Hedge, who lived only a few doors down the street from the Rader house.
The time when Rader locked the door to their office, blocked Mary’s only exit, and approached her as if in a trance.
How Rader was a man you could set your clock by, yet had many odd-ball quirks.
A unique observation of Dennis Rader, supervisor of the Compliance Department, Park City, Kansas, by Mary’s friend, an ex-cop, a man that Rader hated. You will find chapter twenty-nine, "Looked guilty as sin", a fascinating read.
The many, sudden, out-of-character, bizarre things her boss did in early 2005 in the weeks leading up to his arrest.

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Author’s Note

For six-and-one-half years I worked as a Compliance Officer for the City of Park City, Kansas, issuing citations to people not in compliance with city codes; everything from loose dogs to trashy yards to inoperable vehicles; anything that was not considered a criminal issue—the police handled that.

Park City is a bedroom community of about 5,500 nestled against the northern boundary of Wichita, Kansas. I don’t know how many times people have asked me, “Why didn’t you just leave?”

It was mainly people asking this question after February 25, 2005 when the world found out my boss was the BTK killer.

Gotta admit it is a logical question in the minds of the askers. But none of them wore my shoes. They didn’t get divorced from a member of the City Council, remarry only to have that marriage annulled under false pretense, have a brother commit suicide, and constantly worry about losing the insurance coverage I had if I quit...all while under the work supervision of a man whose aura of evil gradually enveloped me, wearing me down mentally and physically.

My frequent complaints about Dennis Rader’s behavior toward me and my pleas for help were ignored. After all, my supervisor was a leader in his church and had worked with the Cub Scouts. “He’s just being Dennis.”

Hell, him “just being Dennis” nearly destroyed my life. Just a few days before I wrote this Author’s Note I had another nightmare. This time he escaped from prison and was trying to kill me, and no one would believe me. I awoke in a dripping sweat, trying desperately to clear my head, making sure it was a dream and not really happening.

I felt I’d be damned if I left my job; damned if I stayed. I chose the latter damnation by rationalizing that at least I’d have health coverage.

I truly was Dennis Rader’s next victim even if he never physically abused, tortured, and strangled me. As you will find out in this book, there are very valid reasons for me to believe that he was indeed considering me as a future project as he called his murder victims.

       Mary Capps
       May 18, 2007

Was it a gift foretelling how he planned to kill her?

“I look back on certain incidents and wonder how close Dennis was to choking the crap out of me. You know, Christmas of 2004 for the first time Dennis gave me a Christmas present. It is a Christmas ornament of a snowman with a scarf around his neck. Do you think there is any significance?”

Mary Capps

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